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DAVID KERLEY
ABC News Correspondent
David Kerley is a correspondent for ABC News based in Washington, DC. Mr. Kerley, who joined the network in 2004, contributes regularly to all ABC News broadcasts, including "World News," "Good Morning America" and "Nightline," and ABC News' digital properties, including ABC News Radio, ABC News Now and ABCNews.com.
Since joining ABC News in February 2004, Mr. Kerley has covered major breaking news stories and most recently traveled with President Bush to Asia for the 2005 APEC summit. He has been to Iraq three times, covering the destruction of the golden dome, government formation and the American military, with which he has embedded several times. Mr. Kerley covered Hurricane Katrina from the eye of the storm as it came ashore in Biloxi, Mississippi. On the heels of Katrina, he reported from Key West, Florida, as Hurricane Rita made landfall and, weeks later in Cancun, Mexico, he and his crew rode out more than fifty-one hours of Hurricane Wilma's Category-Four winds.
Prior to joining ABC, Mr. Kerley spent more than 20 years anchoring and reporting in several cities. Most recently he was the primary anchor at WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he covered breaking news, including the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the 1999 Chicago Blizzard. An experienced field anchor, he covered presidential and foreign dignitary visits, APEC conferences and the war in Bosnia. In 1995 he anchored several hours of coverage from Oklahoma City in the hours and days after the bombing of the Federal building. He helped lead coverage of the 1996 presidential campaign, as well as the Democratic and Republican conventions. Throughout his career, his reporting work has included both general assignment and long form. His in depth reporting has included stories on the technology boom, genetically engineered crops, African American Islam, American Neo-Nazis and the U.S. military.
Mr. Kerley has been honored with two Emmy Awards. His story on those affected by the devastating fires in Southern California in 1993 was named Best Spot News Reporting, and he was honored for Best Public Affairs Broadcast for a WBBM program on the controversial expansion of Chicago's airport. The Press Associations of Washington State and Idaho have also honored him.
Before his work in Chicago, Mr. Kerley worked for stations in Seattle, Boise and Santa Maria, California. He received a Bachelor of Sciences degree in journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. A native of Southern California, he and his wife, Janet, have two teenaged children.